{"id":109756,"date":"2020-07-10T08:43:19","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T15:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/supreme-court-of-canada-upholds-genetic-non-discrimination-law"},"modified":"2020-07-10T08:43:19","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T15:43:19","slug":"supreme-court-of-canada-upholds-genetic-non-discrimination-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/supreme-court-of-canada-upholds-genetic-non-discrimination-law","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court of Canada upholds genetic non-discrimination law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/supreme-court-of-canada-upholds-genetic-non-discrimination-law.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Canada\u2019s highest court has issued a ruling today upholding a federal law preventing third parties, such as employers and insurance companies, from demanding genetic information from individuals.<\/p>\n<p>In a 5\u20134 decision, the Supreme Court of Canada has decided the Genetic Non-Discrimination Act is a constitutional exercise of federal powers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada\u2019s highest court has issued a ruling today upholding a federal law preventing third parties, such as employers and insurance companies, from demanding genetic information from individuals. In a 5\u20134 decision, the Supreme Court of Canada has decided the Genetic Non-Discrimination Act is a constitutional exercise of federal powers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,1495,1496],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics","category-health","category-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}